make one sick

Example Sentences

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"To act as a physician," he writes, "the priest must make one sick!"

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2013

He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired.

From Time Magazine Archive

The painting of your house may, from the damp, have given you cold-I don't conceive that paint can affect one otherwise, if it does not make one sick, as it does me of all things.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

Why," pursued my friend, "there is Mr. B., my next door neighbor—'tis enough to make one sick of life in the city to spend a week out on his farm.

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

I had heard that vinegar would make one sick, and without telling Monsieur Goulden, in my fear I swallowed all the vinegar in his bottle.

From The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian